Monthly Archives: February 2011
Happy Birthday Guy Maddin
Winnipeg’s Civic Treasure film visionary Guy Maddin said, “Those are my goals, you know. To be smart, tasteless and feeling. Something to shoot for.” and “Rage-thought to live by: in The General, Buster gets so annoyed at his girlfriend’s stupidity … Continue reading
Filed under Film, Manitobans of Note
Sacred Places
HERSCHEL PETROGLYPH July 26, 1998 “The petroglyph grabbed me as soon as I approached.” A red-tailed hawk cries over Coal Mine Ravine as it sails on the warm July updrafts on my first visit here. Standing next to a … Continue reading
Filed under Sacred Places, Saskatchewan
New Sacred Place Report Tomorrow
We’ll take the gravel road out of town and find ourselves at the top of another lonesome wind-swept hill in western Saskatchewan. Join me there. The next Sacred Place report posts at 12:05 AM Sunday Feb. 27.
Filed under Promotion, Sacred Places, Saskatchewan
Five North American Tribal Proverbs
UTE PROVERB “God gives us each a song.” SIOUX PROVERB “Speak the truth in humility to all people. Only then can you be a true man.” KIOWA PROVERB “Walk lightly in the spring; Mother Earth is pregnant.” PIMA PROVERB “The … Continue reading
Filed under Ancient Wisdom, Spirit
Kern Hill Co-Op Cat Sale
Andy Hill riffing for the Winnipeg Humane Society. Click on Andy for a Winnipeg flashback. Come on down!
Filed under Winnipeg
Reid’s Pop Song of the Month and Why
Reid Dickie Introduction Quick definition of pop song: any popular song from any era regardless of musical genre. The criteria for getting to be Reid’s Pop Song of the Month is simple: I have to love the tune. It has … Continue reading
Happy Birthday George Harrison
Though Lennon often gets the credit as brightest Beatle, George had the real wisdom. The Spiritual Beatle devoted large portions of his life and fortune to inner pursuits and, going by the clarity in his eyes as he aged, he … Continue reading
Filed under Music
When Not-Quite-Sir, Not-Quite-Nobel-Peace-Prize-Winner Bono claps…
BONO, LEAD SINGER FOR ROCK BAND U2, IS FAMOUS THROUGHOUT THE ENTERTAINMENT INDUSTRY FOR BEING MORE THAN JUST A LITTLE SELF-RIGHTEOUS. AT A RECENT U2 CONCERT IN GLASGOW, SCOTLAND, HE ASKED THE AUDIENCE FOR TOTAL QUIET. THEN, IN THE SILENCE, HE … Continue reading
Filed under Humour
